Justifying Investment in It and Ec at California State Automobile Association
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Learning Objectives After studying this chapter, you will be able to: Identify the major aspects of the economics of information technology. Explain and discuss the productivity paradox. Describe approaches for evaluating IT investment and explain why it is difficult to do it. Understand the nature of intangible benefits and the approaches to deal with such benefits. List and briefly describe the traditional and modern methods of justifying IT investment. Identify the advantages and disadvantages of approaches to charging end users for IT services (chargeback). Understand and describe the IT justification process via examples. Understand some major economic impacts of IT and EC. Describe economic issues related to Web-based technologies including e-commerce. Justifying IT Investment in IT and EC at California State Automobile Association 17.1 Technology and Economic Trends and the Productivity Paradox 17.2 Evaluating IT Investments: Needs, Benefits, Issues, and Traditional Methods 17.3 Advanced Methods for Justifying IT Investment and Using IT Metrics 17.4 Examples of IT Project Justification 17.5 Economic Aspects of IT and Web-Based Systems 17.6 Managerial Issues Minicase: Justifying IT Investment in the State of Iowa Problem-Solving Activity: The Business Value of Mobile Computing
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